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Three killed in Gaza violence
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Three Palestinians have been killed and over 50 others injured after violence broke out across Gaza, the Palestine Red Crescent said. The Israeli army said its troops were besieged "by hundreds of young protesters with stones and Molotov cocktails" at three locations in Gaza on Saturday morning. The troops returned fire with tear-gas and live ammunition and one soldiers was slightly wounded, the army said. One Palestinian was killed in Dir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and the other died of wounds sustained in Rafah, near the Gaza-Egypt border, the Red Crescent said. The agency also reported some 53 others injuries across Gaza.
Another Palestinian was killed on Saturday in Hebron, West Bank, the Red Crescent said. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported two Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded in an exchange of fire in Hebron. On Friday night, Palestinian security forces said three other Palestinians, members of the Popular Resistance Group, were killed in Rafah by an Israeli tank shell. Other Palestinian sources in Rafah told CNN the three were trying to plant an explosive device when they were fired upon once by an Israeli army tank. The Israeli army is not commenting on the incident, but Israeli sources said the three men were trying to plan a bomb and were shot. Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Friday that Israeli troops may reopen the Rafah Crossing and ease closures restricting Palestinians in the area on Sunday, depending on the level of violence. The Rafah area is in southern Gaza on the border with Egypt. The ministry statement came after a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian security officials attended by the CIA. The statement said the Palestinians had promised to exert "maximum effort to stop the shootings in Rafah." Earlier, Palestinian sources said the two sides could not agree when so-called "confidence-building measures" would begin. The Palestinians said they wanted the closures lifted and Israeli troops to begin pulling back immediately. The Israelis, they said, have refused, wanting a period of quiet before those measures go into effect. On Wednesday, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres met and reaffirmed their commitment to Mitchell Report recommendations on re-establishing the peace process and to the cease-fire negotiated by CIA Director George Tenet. They also agreed to resume full security cooperation, which the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he hoped would quickly lead to a real cease-fire.
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